198 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



is another specimen, shot in that neighbourhood in the 

 autumn of the same year. 



TURDUS SWAINSONI, Cab. 



The specimen figured by Durazzo is now in the Florence 

 Museum ; it was captured near Genoa in the autumn of 

 1843, and is the only specimen which has occurred in Italy. 

 I received it in exchange from the Genoa University Mu- 

 seum ; it is in excellent condition. 



Dromol^a leucura (Gm.). 



This species is not rare along the Riviera between Nice and 

 Genoa, whence I have received several specimens. It is much 

 scarcer in Sardinia and Sicily, from what I have gathered ; 

 I did not meet with it in Corsica. A specimen was shot near 

 Orbetello on the first of May 1865. 



Saxicola stapazina (Linn.) . 



I have seen Italian specimens of this species with the 

 russet colour bleached out, and with a greater amount of 

 black on the throat, thus presenting the garb of the so-called 

 S. melanoleuca. The same often happens to the allied S. 

 albicollis (VieilL), alias S. aurita, Temm. 



Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 



I cannot conceive how any specific distinction can be main- 

 tained between the different forms presented by the males of 

 this bird, I have in our collection a large series, some with 

 a white, some with a reddish, and others with a yellowish 

 gular spot, while others, again, have no spot at all. Marquis 

 Doria has in his museum a specimen, shot near Genoa, in 

 which the gular spot is half red and half white ! Such being 

 the case, it is quite impossible td keep up the distinction be- 

 tween C. suecica, C. wolfi, and C. leucocyayie, which are one 

 and the same species. 



Melizophilus sardus (La Marm.). 



Our collection possesses a specimen of this species, a male, 

 shot at Sestriponente, near Genoa, on the 17th of March 

 1873. 



